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PrincessDonna's Encouragement thread
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/1/2008 10:07:40 AM
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PrincessDonna
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Brian can hold her, but doesn't like to if I'm not right there. He's afraid Levi will come over and he won't be able to fend him off her, or that he will drop her because he can't really use his bad arm. He does hold her while I get the little kids down for naps, but right now Noah is also there if he needs him to take her. Not sure what will happen when Noah starts school Thursday.  Noah and Hannah take turns holding and burping her after she eats. 
My parents, sister and BIL, and brother and niece are coming over today for a Labor Day BBQ. We're also celebrating my niece's 2nd birthday, which is September 11th. I have a feeling we'll be celebrating both Esther and my niece's birthday on Labor Day every year.
Esther has her days and nights mixed up. Yesterday, she slept huge chunks of time during the day and I could not wake her up to eat. Then she was up every hour or two to eat ALL night long. Yeah...we have to work on that today...
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/1/2008 10:21:19 AM
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Oh have fun having a bbq!
It's pouring rain here today, I hope you are having better weather.
Enjoy your family today!
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/1/2008 10:54:11 PM
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TammyIsBlessed
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What does it mean to "turn her over"? As in, make her do a somersault?
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 10:34:52 AM
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My kids did that by themselves while sleeping
ALL DAY!
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 10:38:44 AM
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PrincessDonna
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She slept better last night. She was awake and nursing a lot in the evening and only up twice in the night. Yay!
More hold up with the stupid disability papers. It appears we have to start them all over, since no one can find them. This is a problem because they were supposed to be filed within 30 days of the accident. We had our part done 8 days later and then the doctor lost them. We're both very frustrated, but I've done what I can for today...more to do with it tomorrow. I hope they don't deny the claim because we didn't get it in within the 30 days. 
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 1:02:39 PM
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TammyIsBlessed
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ORIGINAL: peculiar_lady2
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What does it mean to "turn her over"? As in, make her do a somersault?
my mom's grandmother described it to her as being like this.....hold baby out in front of you, head up like on the 12 on a clock. And in a smooth motion (with help) turn the baby around like you were turning back a clock...don't stop til their head is at the 12 again. (all mine really weren't awake much at night...they were pretty consistent with their sleeping and wakeful times, so I never tried this. If you try it though let me know if it works...lol.)
Hmmm, interesting. I've never had a baby with her/his nights mixed up. I wish someone would try it so we could see if it works!
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 5:00:29 PM
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I think we're seeing some of the TBI signs that we were warned about. Either that or maybe some mild depression...or sympathy post partum moods. When I left earlier to go to our WIC appointment, Brian was sobbing and couldn't even tell me why, but it wasn't pain. He's also had a hard time the past few days when the kids are too wild in the house, even a "normal" kid level of wild. I don't want to deal with this right now. I'm having my own hormone settling down issues.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 5:03:59 PM
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(((((Donna))))) I'm praying. Wish there was more that I could do.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 5:07:14 PM
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TammyIsBlessed
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Sorry, what's TBI?
Praying for you Donna!!! And Brian!
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 5:41:38 PM
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Traumatic Brain Injury
I am so sorry Donna. It may be also that he just feels helpless and frustrated. When I am going through stuff (operations and different recoveries) where healing isn't as fast as I want, and there are many things that I can't do and I can't address the todo list myself, and the kids are going wild because I can't deal with them like normal... I get really emotional and depressed too. Often I can't even put into words or pinpoint what is wrong. I have to make myself accept and be content with my hubby's loving on me because what I really want is for him to just FIX it. The sad thing is that if this is what it is there really isn't much that you can do other than to pray for him and support him as best that you can. He will just have to give up his fears and frustrations to his Abba Father which is really difficult because it isn't an instant solution.
You can only do what you can do and no more. I don't know if it is healthy or not, but when I am being stretched, I just kind of remove myself from any drama or draining thing. I refuse to think of anything beyond what I am doing that minute. I have a mental list of what needs to be done and just think about each item as it comes up. I engage myself fully in whatever I am doing at the moment. When something starts pressuring my thoughts out of turn... I just tell God that He is just going to have to deal with it. I have done what I can, and I don't have the extra mental, physical, or emotional energy to worry and fuss over it. He can take care of it, and I just have to trust that He will.
I don't know if that will help or not, but you need to find something that works for you to help you deal with all that stress or you are going to bottom out. God will help you do everything that you need to do, but don't forget to take care of yourself.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 5:41:39 PM
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Tramatic Brain Injury
or in this case
Tramatic Brian Injury.
When my x-bil had a TBI he went through something similar. Moodiness and crankiness. Extreme dissatisfaction with the situation. But he had a hard time relying on any help, from us or the Lord. He is well now and seems very happy.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 6:19:49 PM
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You can only do what you can do and no more. I don't know if it is healthy or not, but when I am being stretched, I just kind of remove myself from any drama or draining thing. I refuse to think of anything beyond what I am doing that minute. I have a mental list of what needs to be done and just think about each item as it comes up. I engage myself fully in whatever I am doing at the moment. When something starts pressuring my thoughts out of turn... I just tell God that He is just going to have to deal with it. I have done what I can, and I don't have the extra mental, physical, or emotional energy to worry and fuss over it. He can take care of it, and I just have to trust that He will.
Thanks for posting that, Ellie. I needed to hear that just for day-to-day life.
Donna, I'm praying for all of you right now.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 6:45:05 PM
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Donna - she's a lovely girl!!! Finally got to look at the pics!
Praying for you & Brian & the kids and for the disability stuff to get straightened out! About Brian not handling the kids getting wild, it could be some of his meds. I know some of the meds my dh was on for his back made everything seem louder than it was & it made him pretty irritable.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 8:00:22 PM
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PrincessDonna
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I might think the meds, except he just came off of one of his long-acting ones and isn't taking more short-acting. So he's actually on less. I wonder if they were actually masking some of these things, KWIM? I'm sure they do different things to different people.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 8:24:53 PM
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(((((((Donna))))))) ((((((Brian)))))))
Still praying for you and thinking about you every day.
You both may go through some emotional things for awhile. This has all been a "trauma" not only physically but emotionally and it will take time to get back to a full confidence and security.
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RE: PrincessDonna's hatching thread - 9/2/2008 10:01:34 PM
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Donna, praying for you and Brian!! You can get through this, you WILL get through this!!
Esther is just simply divine, everytime I see her little face on your avatar I just smile. 
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